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==== What is CoCCoN? ==== | ==== What is CoCCoN? ==== | ||
- | CoCCoN is an interdisciplinary network supported through the strategic partnership program between Princeton University and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. It provides a unique collaborative environment for research and exchange on the emergence | + | CoCCoN is an interdisciplinary network supported through the [[https://www.international.hu-berlin.de/en/international-profile/strategic-partnerships-of-hu-berlin | strategic partnership]] program between Princeton University and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. It offers a unique collaborative environment for research and exchange on the emergence |
- | of cooperation and collective cognition in human and animal systems. It includes scientists from such different fields | + | of cooperation and collective cognition in human and animal systems by bringing together scientists from Princeton and HU Berlin from such different fields |
as biology, physics, psychology, social sciences, economics, and engineering, with both empirical and theoretical | as biology, physics, psychology, social sciences, economics, and engineering, with both empirical and theoretical | ||
- | backgrounds from Princeton and HU Berlin. | + | backgrounds. |
- | Our aim is to focus on two main questions: (1) the impact of variable environments on evolution | + | Our aim is to focus on two main questions: (1) the role of social interactions and interaction networks for dynamics of complex social, socio-economic and socio-ecologial systems, and (2) fundamental dynamics governing the spreading of behavior, so-called “behavioral contagion”, and its role in collective cognition. Specific attention will be paid to possible applications |
- | and persistence of cooperation, and (2) fundamental dynamics governing the spreading of behavior, so-called | + | |
- | “behavioral contagion”, and its role in collective cognition. Specific attention will be paid to possible applications | + | |
of the research towards promoting sustainability in coupled socio-economic-environmental systems and understanding | of the research towards promoting sustainability in coupled socio-economic-environmental systems and understanding | ||
collective risk perception in human and animal groups. | collective risk perception in human and animal groups. | ||
- | A core part of the network activity are interdisciplinary workshops and smaller scale individual research visits specifically aimed also at junior researchers (young graduate students, Master & PhD level). Which shall give students the opportunity to gather early experience in international collaboration, while working on self-determined projects. A special methodological focus of the network will be novel visualization methods for | + | A core part of the network activity are interdisciplinary workshops and smaller scale individual research visits specifically aimed also at junior researchers (young graduate students, Master & PhD level), which shall give students the opportunity to gather early experience in international collaboration, while working on self-determined projects. A special methodological focus of the network will be novel visualization methods for |
presentation and analysis of complex network data. | presentation and analysis of complex network data. | ||
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+ | ==== Research ==== | ||
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+ | Within CoCCoN the following research topics are of particular interest: | ||
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+ | * Social modulation of risk in animal and human systems | ||
+ | * Emergent dynamics in adaptive network models of social dynamics | ||
+ | * Cooperation and coalition formations | ||
+ | * Behavioral contagion and social norms on networks | ||
+ | * Collective decision making - role of interactions and informational correlations | ||
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+ | ==== Activities ==== | ||
+ | Past Activities: | ||
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+ | * Workshop on Social Modulation of Risk, Princeton, May 14th-15th, 2017. | ||
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+ | * CoCCoN Modeling Tutorial, Potsdam, November 16th-17th | ||
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+ | * CoCCoN Meeting “Social Modulation of Risk & Collective Cognition", Berlin, November 16th - 19th, 2017 | ||
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+ | * Princeton Workshop on Collective Behaviour, Social Media and Systemic Risk, August 16th-18th, 2018. | ||
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+ | * HU internal CoCCoN Meeting, December 10th-11th, 2018. | ||
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+ | Upcoming activities: | ||
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+ | * CoCCoN Workshop in Princeton, late January, 2019. | ||
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